Question. What constitues academic all-big ten? A certain grade point average or do they look at the average across the division and set a bench mark for people who made it and who are below? I have no idea so I was just wondering.

Congratulations to those who made it. Not sure how the Academic All Big Ten Team works, but 8 guys sounds like a lot. I think Rich Rod has done a good job stressing academics with this team, and I know it's one of the criteria DB is using to evaluate the coach.

But when someone actually pressed Martin/RR for the GPA numbers last year, they couldn't provide them, or offer any comparison to the GPAs under Carr, so it's anyone's guess if that claim had any legitimacy.

I meant 50 total selectees across the Big 10... first team, second team, specials teams like they select the All-American teams. I didn't expect to have 50 UM players on the list, since that would be an insane percentage of the team.

If it was engineering I'd be amazed. I worked my ass off for my ME 3.0 classes were curved to a strict 2.7

Even if they take only the "easiest" U of M classes I doubt the average in all of them is above a 3.0. And if these guys who have a full time job (football) can also do at least "average" in a U of M Classroom, that's really impressive